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“You can’t have a conversation with an autograph and you can’t go out to lunch with a group selfie”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“I’ve heard it said that you can discover how you feel about someone when you watch them sleeping. You see things you don’t look for at other times. The elegance of an open mouth, the absence of anxiety, the vulnerability of each breath, a small vein pulsing beneath her pale skin.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“Men always imagine that women are bonded by ideas of sisterhood and solidarity, but we pick our fights and our friends.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“Haven’t you heard – fat isn’t the killer any more. Now I can eat more pork than Kermit.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“If I wanted to talk to a bearded man with delusions of grandeur, I’d ask my barista how his band is doing.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“but we often meet our fate on the road we take to avoid it.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“Remember, Joseph, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes.”
― Michael Robotham, The Other Wife

“I would take my strange and incapable heart out of my chest if I could, display it, absolve myself of responsibility.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“The forest looms. It is dark in here, dark where I belong, with the wolves and the snakes and the other loveless creatures.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“I have always been afraid of her ability to pull the rug out from underneath us, her capacity for cruelty and kindness in the same sentence, same action.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“It must be a prerequisite for being a mother, something that growing another person inside you does, heart and heartlessness, as though simplistic empathy has been scooped out and replaced with something more fundamental, something more likely to guarantee survival.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“Love always asks you to sacrifice something, I know that now.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“The first birthday is the key to identity.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, Gravity Is The Thing

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, Gravity Is The Thing

“Popular self-help teaches you to ask for help, accept help, set boundaries, say no. So you ask for help and the person you ask politely refuses. Because he or she has learned to set boundaries and say no.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, Gravity Is The Thing

“Maybe, by a certain age, we have all encountered some impossible loss, or at least the accumulation of small sufferings.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, Gravity Is The Thing

“Men speak in absolutes, women in uncertainties, and this often strikes us as a weakness in women, but it’s knowledge: a knowledge that we cannot know, not ever.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, Gravity Is The Thing

“Trying to force Seneca’s approach: believe the worst and you will be prepared when it takes place; by believing the worst, he actually thought he was earning a happy surprise.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, Gravity Is The Thing